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Eye-witness ~ -
in Budapest

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© One of hundreds of Communists and others mur-
dered by fascists who launched a reign of terror
in Budapest, this Communist leader lies amid the
wreckage of his ofilice, a bayonet thrust into his
mouth, a portrait of Lenin propped upon his body.

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Crisis brews in
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sake LONDON

ne british Vonservative government, torn with dissention within and under |

strong popular pressure throughout the country, is confronted with a crisis which may
well bring about its downfall.

Its choice is between withdrawing its iavasion troops from Egypt, as demanded by

the United Nations, and facing a revolt among its own fyi
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McEwen's China report
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tne’ TOM McEWEN
4 ih thie last article appear-
im of “4 Paper I have seen
Ny he world and its peo-
to © °0,000-mile trip took
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at Vast © Moscow and across
my, ‘nds of Siberia, In-
» MBolia and up "and
down the en-
tire length of
People’s China.
And in China
I had the op-
portunity of
talking with
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understanding,

rather than by force of arms.
There was always unanimous
agreement that the latter
course settles nothing, but only
breeds more of the same mad-
ness.

With A. A. MacLeod and
Leslie Morris of Toronto, I had
the great good fortune of at-
tending the 8th congress of
the Communist Party of China
as a fraternal delegate from
the Labor-Progressive party.

Following this congress, we
had an opportunity to travel
widely in China, to meet the
ordinary people of factory,
farm and village, and to see
for ourselves what had been

rupt regime of Chiang Kai-
shek's Kuomintang clique.

In this tour of China which
took us from Canton to Sheng-
yang (formerly Mukden), I

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split among Western countries.

A strong group of diehard
Tories, heedless of the danger
to the uneasy truce in the
Middle East, is demanding in-
ternational control of the Suez
Canal as its price for support
of any withdrawal policy.

The group has warned Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer R. A.
Butler, who is heading the gov-
ernment during Prime Minis-
ter Sir Anthony Eden’s three-
week absence in Jaimaica, that
“no man who steers the coun-
try into so abject a surrender
could ever hope to lead the
Conservative party.”

The government’s difficul-
ties are complicated by the
imposition of gas rationing

. which is bringing home to the

British people, the majority of
whom are opposed to the ag-
gression against Egypt, the
consequences of the govern-
ment’s policy to their own ec-

onomy.
Meanwhile, the government

campaign for 1,500 subs stood
at 1,125 — 375 short of the ob-
jective. Press clubs are asked
to send in all subs immediately
so that final tabulations can be
published next week.

is following its stalling policy.
This week it announced token
withdrawal of a battalion of
British troops as units of the
UN police force moved into the
Suez Canal zone, but the ma-
jority of British and French

:
:

Here the first units of the United Nat

troops are still in Egypt. The
Israeli government also an-
nounced a partial withdrawal.
All three aggressor states,
Britain, France and Israel, are
demanding “guarantees” from
the UN.

ions police force

are shown disembarking from the Swiss plane that t
: ook
them to Abu Suweir airfield in the Suez Canal zone,

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